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    Italian Sketchbook - Drawings (back cover)

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    Italian Sketchbook - Drawings (back cover)
    Italian Sketchbook - Drawings (back cover)
    Italian Sketchbook - Drawings (back cover)
    Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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    Artist
    Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
    Title
    Italian Sketchbook - Drawings (back cover)
    Date
    1754
    Medium
    Vellum
    Dimensions
    Metric: 281 x 210 mm
    Imperial: 11 1/16 x 8 1/4 in.
    Collection
    Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, New Haven. To license images click here
    Accession Number
    B1977.14.359 back cover
    Wilson Online Reference
    D280/33
    Description
    Book bound in vellum containing 31 pages of blue laid paper with drawings by Wilson and Thomas Jones
    Provenance
    Oldfield Bowles; given to Sir George Beaumont, 1784; thence by descent until 1963, when sold to Paul Mellon
    Signature/inscription
    Unsigned; no inscription
    Critical commentary
    Only two sketchbooks by Wilson have survived - the present one (D280-D280/33) and D53-D53/81 Studies and Designs by R. Wilson done in Rome in the Year MDCCLII, Victoria & Albert Museum, London (E.3586-1922). The drawings in the present sketchbook are all by Wilson except for D280/24 p. 24(v) where there is a study of Durham Yard by William Hodges.
    Previous Cat/Ref Nos
    Object ID: 6363
    Bibliography
    Sutton & Clements 1968
    Updated by Compiler
    2016-09-09 00:00:00

    Biographies

    • William Hodges (1744-1797)
    • Paul Mellon (1907-1999)
    • Oldfield Bowles (1739-1810)
    • Sir George Beaumont (1753-1827)
    This is part of the "Italian Sketchbook Drawings Yale Center for British Art 1754" sketchbook
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